Evaluation of the saturation magnetostriction in nearly zero magnetostrictive glass-coated amorphous microwires

Measurements of the saturation magnetostriction lambda(s) of glass-coated covered (Co1-xMnx)(75)Si10B15 (x=0.09, 0.10 and 0.105) and Co56.5Fe6.5Ni10B16Si11 amorphous microwires carried out by means of the stress dependence of initial magnetic susceptibility method are reported. The conditions of applicability of this method to the microwires have been analyzed, taking into account the domain structure expected for very low negative magnetostriction of the metallic nucleus. The experimental data of lambda(s) obtained in those amorphous microwires are in agreement with those reported in amorphous ribbons with similar compositions. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(00)78908-0].